Despite the cool temperatures, overcast skies and slight sprinkles, the Cleveland Lakefront Nature Preserve had some good species today, Sunday, Sept. 3, from 8:15 to 11:30 AM. It will, no doubt get better as weather systems bring in birds.  If you go on Labor Day, watch the traffic from the Cleveland Air Show. Here is the list I had from today:


Canada Goose    2

Mallard      5

Double -crested Cormorant  19

Great Blue Heron   3

Cooper's Hawk     1

Ring-billed Gull     12

Herring Gull    6

Mourning Dove    2

Chimney Swift    15

Red-bellied Woodpecker  2

Downy Woodpecker   3

Northern Flicker   8

Eastern Wood-Pewee   3

Least Flycatcher  1

Yellow-bellied Flycatcher   1

Eastern Phoebe   1

Great Crested Flycatcher  1   Unusual plumage in that it had patches of white feathers on the belly and the patches of light colored feathers on the wings were almost a pale yellow, but the rest of the bird appeared to have normal colored plumage. Keep an eye out for it.

Warbling Vireo     4

Red-eyed Vireo    2

Swallow sp.  Too far away to tell

Black-capped Chickadee  5

Carolina Wren   1

Swainson's Thrush  1

American Robin   10

Gray Catbird    18  (they were everywhere)

Cedar Waxwing    5

Black and White Warbler   1

Tennessee Warbler    4

Common Yellowthroat     7

American Redstart    4

Magnolia Warbler    6

Bay-breasted Warbler   3

Blackburnian Warbler    1

Chestnut-sided Warbler   1

Blackpoll Warbler    3

Black-throated Blue Warbler   1

Wilson's Warbler   2

Eastern Towhee  1

Song Sparrow   13

Northern Cardinal   10

Indigo Bunting   1

House Finch   2

American Goldfinch   22



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